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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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So I said to “Tenzing” director Jennifer Peedom and cinematographer Stefan Duscio after our discussion of the film, in which they detailed the extreme lengths required to re-create the first-ever summit of Mt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Topping said people were experiencing climate change firsthand, with the effects of extreme weather being felt around the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Some think this is so extreme it is a bubble in earnings, the E part of the PE ratio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Sport student Redi Taku told AFP the move was indeed extreme "considering that there are minors aged 16 to 17 among the protesters".

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

I scowled even though I knew that tackling another Glitcher showed an extreme lack of self-control.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Hazel and his companions had suffered extremes of grief and horror during the telling of Holly’s tale.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.

From Foes by Mary Johnston

It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

We still stand on the ground that the English government is founded in usurpation, but we can dispose of all objections by proving the extremer case.

From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney

Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.

From Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome

O hapless race! what still extremer woe Doth Fortune doom the living to bemoan?

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The fish inhabiting the delectable pool were all big ones, except for a few scattered young fry which dwelt precariously in the extremest shallows where the big ones could not come at them.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts


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